Timothy Taylor

Dylan Thomas
His poetry was about the meaning of life, which impacted how other poets/authors wrote about

1. Birth, copulation, and death are Thomas' major themes
2. He is one of a kind by going into the physiology of birth, which no other author has done
3. His motto was basically "whatever is born has to die"
4. He wasn't very concerned on what was happening but how it happened, the creation
5. His poems symbolize thought
6. All his poems are created from truth with a nice flow to it
7. His poems about friendship, power, fight against the middle class, man's inhumanity, faith and reason, science and myth, principles and free thought, the integration of the personality, tradition and the individual talent, body and soul, the poetic process, the natural scene, and the belief of love.
8. He wrote about complete opposites in the same poem to make readers think more in depth about it, including, born and death, love and hate, joy and guilt
9. Some of his biggest influences were Donne, Blake, Whitman, and Lawrence, which helped Dylan write about sex
10. Influences for love were Apostles, Donne, Hopkins, and Thompson
11. Frazer and Darwin influenced his writing about conflicts bewtween love in man, God and nature
12. He focused strongly on the truth rather than making the "beauty" of everything and "sugar-coating" everything.
13. People portray things that he does in way like, "he does not doze off, he fellows asleep; he does not age, time catches up to him" he made an impact on how people thought about every day things
14. Joyce was another big influence
15. From Joyce's writing, he could write with more detail, which was her influence
16. In his writing he can combine different styled writings into one
17. All of his themes lead up to one master theme, seeking God
18. People consider him a religious poet
19. But not people dont say hes a true Christian, but more of a different breed or kind of this religion
20. His writing appeals to everybody because he tries to stay young with his writing by adding a sense of awkwardness, rashning, sloppy in manner and dress, but good-hearted and "with a sense of humor" while also being sophisticated

Source #1: EJ2101207896&mode=view

1. His work is labeled as "stirring, passionate, and eloquent verse"
2. Almost everybody agreed with that because what he spoke about was the truth
3. Most of his writings were through memories he had as a child
4. His idol as a young chid was, of course, William Shakespere
5. Another influence on how he wrote was D.H. Lawerence
6. When he married his wife, Caitlin Macnamara, mariage and Cailin were some new topics for his poems
7. When his father died, he wrote about what he meant to him and how they were connected
8. During the war, he wrote about that
9. Although he only won one award, Dylan is considered one of the most talented poets with his use of imagery and wording
10. His idea of love was for a man to love without losing his masculinity

Source #2: http://project1.caryacademy.org/echoes/03-04/Dylan_Thomas/DefaultDylanThomas.htm#

1. Drank his way to death at the age of 38
2. His most famous poem is "dont go gentle into that goodnight"
3. The poem was made in 1952
4. Grew up in wales
5. Left school at the age of 16
6. First got published in 1933
7. His first two poplar poems Eighteen poems and Twenty-five poems
8. Both were made in the mid 1930's
9. He wrote short stories
10. He wrote film scripts
11. He wrote for radio shows
12. First performed in 1953
13. Published postumously in 1954
14. He became internationally known for his lyrical poems
15. Then became a celebrity
16. He drank as hard as he worked
17. On a tour in New york he collapsed
18. He collapsed because he drank too much
19. He was taken to St. Vincent's hospital
20. He died a few day laters on Nov. 9, 1953

Source #3: http://www.who2.com/ask/dylanthomas.html

1. Created the line "im a poet and you know it"
2. Born on Oct. 27, 1914
3. His first job was at South Wales Daily Post
4. Going on many trips caused many problems for his mariage
5. His father was an english professor
6. He would recite poetry to Dylan before he could read
7. He loved the sounds of nursery ryhmes
8. Poe was another influence
9. His parents spoke fluent welsh
10. Dylan never learned that language
11. Read a lot of D.H. Lawerence
12. He excelled in english and nothing else but that
13. When he dropped put he became a writer for the local newspaper
14. By December 1932 he left his working at the newspaper
15. Just in his teen years he wrote half his writings
16. When he turned 20 he moved to London
17. In 1934 he won the Poet's Corner prize
18. Then he published his first book, which went to great accolades
19. His book was a collection of poems he had written earlier
20. In 1950, Thomas first visited the U.S.

Source #4: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/150

1. Thomas' poetry is very well known to both England and America
2. Dylan is one reason why poetry is still alive to this day
3. People say that Dylan was a unique type of poet, a maker
4. His poems didnt have any iconic characters, to make his work too well known, he just wrote plain good poetry
5. His overall theme was the human condition itself, not the man living in it
6. He always thought that every relationship has a ghostly side to it
7. In his poems there is no subjective activity beyond the agonized
8. The knottiest problem for such a poet as Thomas is that of development
9. All his poems was a fact that happened in his life or it symbolized a major part of anybodies life (love, hate, etc.)
10. Thomas is still developing, and doubtless will do so in accordance with a true poet's fidelity to his own vision

Source #5: EJ2101207888&mode=view